News
8 June 2007
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Returnee refugee crisis continues: local Church appeals to civil authorities
Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis of returnee refugees in East Timor seems nowhere near a solution. “Some 30,000 displaced persons are living in 51 camps in the capital Dili and another 70,000 have moved to districts w ...
8 June 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Save Iraqi Christians: call from Caritas Internationalis and Aid to the Church in Need
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In Iraq violence against Christians continues. The local Church reported that after the murder of Fr Ganni and his three assistants in Mosul, in Baghdad a Chaldean Catholic priest Fr. Hani Abdul ...
8 June 2007
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - “If we work together we can grow together” is the slogan for the annual national Caritas collection on Sunday 10 June: the common good is built with common effort
Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "If we work together we can grow together” "is the slogan of the annual national Caritas collection in Argentina taken in parishes across the country on Sunday June 10, to meet the most u ...
8 June 2007
AMERICA/CANADA - 40th anniversary of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace: “an effective means for the Catholic Church in Canada to express its preferential love for the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed"
Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop André Gaumond of Sherbrooke who is also president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops', issued a Pastoral message to mark the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Catholic Org ...
8 June 2007
AFRICA/UGANDA - Project for “Better health conditions, HIV screening Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission ” in North East Uganda
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - A project launched on June 1 for ““Better health conditions, HIV screening and Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission”, in Abim, in the district of Karamoja, north east Uganda will conclu ...
8 June 2007
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Every year acute malnutrition kills at least one million of the world's children, almost one out of every three Bolivians is malnourished
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - Almost one third of the population of Bolivia is malnourished according to a UN report drafted by the local office in La Paz.
This is the highest percentage in Latin America. The serious proble ...
8 June 2007
AFRICA/TOGO - The Pope accepts resignation of the Archbishop of Lomé and appoints successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI on 8 June 2007 accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Lomé (Togo), presented by Archbishop Philippe Fanoko Kossi Kpod ...
8 June 2007
ASIA/INDIA - The Pope appoints new Bishop of Amravati
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI on 8 June 2007 appointed Mgr Lourdes Daniel, Bishop of Amravati (India). Until now Mgr Daniel was Vicar General of the diocese of Poona (India).
The Bis ...
6 June 2007
VATICAN - AVE MARIA - “Two Hearts, one Love” Rev. Luciano Alimandi
Vatican City (Fides Service) - With the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary we concluded the month of May, a Marian month par excellence. In this salvific event, which we frequently contemplate in the reci ...
6 June 2007
VATICAN - Caritas Internationalis has new president: Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga. Appeal for the Middle East
Vatican City (Fides Service) - Cardinal Oscar Andrès Rodriguez Maradiaga, aged 64, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is the new president of Caritas Internationalis. He was elected to succeed 61 year old lay man Fran ...
6 June 2007
VATICAN - “Pope Pius XII anticipated and prepared the Council” says Rev Nicola Bux, Vice Rector of the Ecumenical Institute of Bari in an interview with Fides
Vatican City (Fides Service)- “The recent recognition of the heroic virtues of Pope Pius XII, in my opinion, is an eloquent sign with regard to the correct application of the Second Vatican Council” said Rev Nicola B ...
6 June 2007
AFRICA - “ We must deepen our reciprocal knowledge in order to build a world of peace founded on respect for others” says Catholic Archbishop of Rabat, president of the Northern African Regional Bishops Conference, in Rome for the ad limina visit
Rome (Fides Service)- “Our small communities of Catholics living among people who are mainly followers of Islam, bear witness to Christ's love for all humanity” said Archbishop Vincent Landel of Rabat, Morocco and pr ...
6 June 2007
AFRICA/CHAD - Jesuit Refugee Service starts school lessons for children of internally displaced families
N’Djamena (Fides Service)- On 18 May in Habile 3 IDP camp a service of primary school began for the children of internally displaced persons in the Dar Sila region in eastern Chad started by the Jesuit Refugee Service ...
6 June 2007
ASIA/IRAQ - Ever more difficult the life of believers in Christ in the land of Iraq
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - For Iraqi Christians life is increasingly difficult due to the never ending war and escalation of confessional violence which culminated earlier this week with the murder in Mosul of a Chaldean ...
6 June 2007
AMERICA/CANADA - “Media ad religion: risk or opportunity?” UCIP International Catholic Union of the Press World Congress
Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - The International Catholic Union of the Press is holding a World Congress 2007 from 3 to 10 June in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada on the theme "Media ad religion: risk or opportunity?". The UCIP Con ...
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